Perusing over on Instagram (I’m@sewingartistry) and this cute thing pops up: And ain’t it the way. For a lot of young kids entering the marketplace, this is a real confusing fact of life, and it is a fact of life. The way most kids get around it […]
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Watching this trend work it’s way through various aspects of the fashion industry is going to be fascinating. What has happened with FCF (fast/cheap fashion) is that it has (appropriately enough in a free-market system) responded to the trend of fashion….that trend 20 years ago was to […]
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This is a new – or relatively new – movement or term for folks who derive inspiration from media, tv, movies for their clothes and costumes. Then they get dressed up and go to conventions where there are other folks dressed up and they have fun doing […]
Read more →This is really part two of yesterday’s post: How to Pick Out The Right Sized Pattern, picking out pattern according to shoulder measurement. In most cases, patterns are multi-sized and this can really help us in more ways than one – mostly in that we can pick […]
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This is a typical question from a lot of my student and subscribers. Here’s the bottom line on this: what is the hardest part to alter? I know you’re saying all of it – well, not so fast, there really is a pecking order here and it […]
Read more →When you sit down to sew, what are the most important skills you want to have? What do you want to learn better and more efficiently than anything else in sewing? I would love to hear your response to this, because what I get in my class […]
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That may sound like a strange question this time of year while you’re out and about in a creative celebratory mood, but it’s interesting to just observe while you’re in the creative spirit. What’s interesting to note is: Do you limit yourself? Do you shy away from […]
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